Get Free

About Get Free

Caribbean poet Kamau Brathwaite said, “the unity is sub-marine.” Let’s dive deep, I’m your host Tao Leigh Goffe, and you’re listening to my podcast *Get Free.* I'm a writer, associate professor, and a DJ. I teach classes on the global histories that emerge out of imperialism and unfreedom. This podcast is about freedom as a verb, the ongoing practice of discovering your "yes." I talk with guests about getting free by embracing this question.

Category

arts · education · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Oct 2020

Latest episode

1 Mar 2024

Latest episodes

15 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Mar 2024

   Dirge: The Future

   Welcome to this special season of the Get Free podcast. It is the accompaniment to the multimedia project "Dirge: Black and Indigenous Hemispheric Burial a Sound Sculpture," curated by your host Tao Leigh Goffe. In these five episodes you will hear from collaborators on themes of stolen land and stolen life in the Western Hemisphere. This episode features Dark Lab member Professor Matt Hooley (https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/matt-hooley) (Dartmouth College). He is hosted in conversation by Leanna Humphrey (Architecture), Hanxue Wei (Regional Planning), and Delilah Griswold (Global Development). For more information visit: https://www.darklaboratory.com/dirge (https://www.darklaboratory.com/dirge)

2. 

   1 Mar 2024

   The World We Became: Pasifika Atlantis

   Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 is a speculative cartography atlas. Co-curated by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson, the initiative is a collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists. This digital humanities experiment maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. The names of the contributors are: Andrea Chung, Heidi Amin-Hong, Juhwan Seo, Melanie Puka, Priyanka Sen, and Tauren Nelson. The special guest expert is Professor Kevin Escudero (https://vivo.brown.edu/display/kescuder) (Brown University). Dark Laboratory is a creative technology collective, production company, and design studio that researches climate and race through theory and action. Each initiative we release forms another layer of an expanding galaxy of projects on Black and Indigenous futures. The lab’s philosophy is inspired by the ethos of Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark (https://bookshop.org/a/83151/9780679745426) (1993). We imagine the Western hemisphere as a haunted house founded on stolen land and built through the labor of stolen lives. This podcast was part of the Cornell Migrations (https://migrations.cornell.edu/) Summer Institute, 2021, organized by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson. Original Music: Jesediah Producer: David Gonzalez

3. 

   1 Mar 2024

   Dirge: The Caribbean

   Welcome to this special season of the Get Free podcast accompaniment to Dirge: Black and Indigenous Hemispheric Burial a Sound Sculpture, which is a multimedia project curated by me, your host Tao Leigh Goffe. In these five episodes you will hear from collaborators on themes of stolen land and stolen life in the Western Hemisphere. Chijioke Onah (Literatures in English), Chloe Tsui (Architecture), Nusaibah Khan (Architecture) For more information visit: https://www.darklaboratory.com/dirge

4. 

   1 Mar 2024

   The World We Became: Exurbs of Aztlán

   Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 is a speculative cartography atlas. Co-curated by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson, the initiative is a collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists. This digital humanities experiment maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. The names of the contributors are: Citlali Sosa-Riddell, Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera, Kelsey Moore, Lydia Macklin Camel, Mónica Bernal Ramirez, and Nancy Morales. The special guest expert is Professor Kim Bain (https://english.ubc.ca/profile/kimberly-bain/) (UBC). Dark Laboratory is a creative technology collective, production company, and design studio that researches climate and race through theory and action. Each initiative we release forms another layer of an expanding galaxy of projects on Black and Indigenous futures. The lab’s philosophy is inspired by the ethos of Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark (https://bookshop.org/a/83151/9780679745426) (1993). We imagine the Western hemisphere as a haunted house founded on stolen land and built through the labor of stolen lives. This podcast was part of the Cornell Migrations (https://migrations.cornell.edu/) Summer Institute, 2021, organized by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson. Original Music: Jesediah Producer: David Gonzalez

5. 

   1 Mar 2024

   Dirge: Mannahatta

   Welcome to this special season of the Get Free podcast accompaniment to "Dirge: Black and Indigenous Hemispheric Burial a Sound Sculpture," which is a multimedia project curated by your host Tao Leigh Goffe. This episode features an interview with Professor Alyosha Goldstein. Aparajita Bhandari (Communication), Rewa Phansalkar (Architecture), Lydia Macklin Camel (Landscape Architecture) For more information visit: https://www.darklaboratory.com/dirge (https://www.darklaboratory.com/dirge) Produced by David Gonzalez

6. 

   1 Mar 2024

   The World We Became: Marronage - Quilombo

   Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 is a speculative cartography atlas. Co-curated by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson, the initiative is a collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists. This digital humanities experiment maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. The names of the contributors are: Amanda Pinheiro, Ana Ozaki, André Nascimento, Christopher Roberts, Essah Díaz, and Reighan Gillam. The special guest expert is Professor Derrick Spires (https://digblk.psu.edu/people/derrick-spires/) (University of Delaware). Dark Laboratory is a creative technology collective, production company, and design studio that researches climate and race through theory and action. Each initiative we release forms another layer of an expanding galaxy of projects on Black and Indigenous futures. The lab’s philosophy is inspired by the ethos of Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark (https://bookshop.org/a/83151/9780679745426) (1993). We imagine the Western hemisphere as a haunted house founded on stolen land and built through the labor of stolen lives. This podcast was part of the Cornell Migrations (https://migrations.cornell.edu/) Summer Institute, 2021, organized by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson. Original Music: Jesediah Producer: David Gonzalez

7. 

   1 Mar 2024

   Dirge: Ithaca, New York

   Welcome to this special season of the Get Free podcast accompaniment to Dirge: Black and Indigenous Hemispheric Burial a Sound Sculpture, which is a multimedia project curated by your host Tao Leigh Goffe. In these five episodes you will hear from collaborators on themes of stolen land and stolen life in the Western Hemisphere. Ithaca: Dwagáhdęgyoh géh, who are you responsible to? André Nascimento (Romance Languages), Waylon Wilson (Performing and Media Arts), Marsha Taichman (Cornell Library) For more information visit: https://www.darklaboratory.com/dirge

8. 

   1 Mar 2024

   The World We Became, Season 3, Teaser

   Co-hosted by Professors Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson, Season 3 of Get Free introduces a speculative cartography experiment entitled The World We Became: Map Quest 2350. A collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists, this digital humanities project maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. The born-digital speculative design experiment features visual and audio components presenting a planetary vision of the year 2350 as an underwater future in ruins. Learn more about the project at the Dark Laboratory, a creative technology collective, production company, and design studio that researches climate and race through theory and action. Each initiative we release forms another layer of an expanding galaxy of projects on Black and Indigenous futures. The lab’s philosophy is inspired by the ethos of Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark (https://bookshop.org/a/83151/9780679745426) (1993). We imagine the Western hemisphere as a haunted house founded on stolen land and built through the labor of stolen lives. This podcast was part of the Cornell Migrations (https://migrations.cornell.edu/) Summer Institute, 2021, organized by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson.

9. 

   1 Mar 2024

   Dirge: Overview

   Welcome to this special season of the Get Free podcast accompaniment to "Dirge: Black and Indigenous Hemispheric Burial, a Sound Sculpture," which is a multimedia project curated byyour host Tao Leigh Goffe. In these five episodes you will hear from collaborators on themes of stolen land and stolen life in the Western Hemisphere. Four bricks — Mannahatta, Caribbean, Ithaca, the Far Future — in the wall in the sound sculpture symbolize the different site-specific geographies of departure to chart Black and Native life after apocalypse across the Americas. Three groups of students were assigned to curate their interpretation of a place-based sound sculpture. For more information visit: https://www.darklaboratory.com/ (https://www.darklaboratory.com/)

10. 

    1 Mar 2024

    The World We Became: The Lands Formerly Known as South Asia

    Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 is a speculative cartography atlas. Co-curated by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson, the initiative is a collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists. This digital humanities experiment maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. The names of the contributors are: Atif Khan, Austin Kocher, Christin Washington, Judith Salcido, Rewa Phansalkar and Ryan Persadie. The special guest expert is Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones (https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/eddie-bruce-jones) (SOAS). Dark Laboratory is a creative technology collective, production company, and design studio that researches climate and race through theory and action. Each initiative we release forms another layer of an expanding galaxy of projects on Black and Indigenous futures. The lab’s philosophy is inspired by the ethos of Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark (https://bookshop.org/a/83151/9780679745426) (1993). We imagine the Western hemisphere as a haunted house founded on stolen land and built through the labor of stolen lives. This podcast was part of the Cornell Migrations (https://migrations.cornell.edu/) Summer Institute, 2021, organized by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson. Original Music: Jesediah Producer: David Gonzalez

11. 

    1 Mar 2024

    The World We Became: Turtle Island & Palestine

    Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 is a speculative cartography atlas. Co-curated by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson, the initiative is a collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists. This digital humanities experiment maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. The names of the contributors are: Anisa Jackson, Elspeth Iralu, Erica Violet Lee, Hashem Abushama, Nisrin Elamin, and Randa Tawil. The special guest expert is Professor Samia Henni (https://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/article/school-welcomes-prof-samia-henni) (McGill). Dark Laboratory is a creative technology collective, production company, and design studio that researches climate and race through theory and action. Each initiative we release forms another layer of an expanding galaxy of projects on Black and Indigenous futures. The lab’s philosophy is inspired by the ethos of Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark (https://bookshop.org/a/83151/9780679745426) (1993). We imagine the Western hemisphere as a haunted house founded on stolen land and built through the labor of stolen lives. This podcast was part of the Cornell Migrations (https://migrations.cornell.edu/) Summer Institute, 2021, organized by Tao Leigh Goffe and Shannon Gleeson. Original Music: Jesediah Producer: David Gonzalez

12. 

    17 Mar 2023

    Dark Laboratory: University Land Grants, Grabs, and Desert Islands

    Executive Director of the Dark Laboratory, a collective for creative tech on storytelling at the crossroads of stolen life and stolen land, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe sits down with scientist, artist, and tarot practitioner Dr. Chandler Puritty based in Kumeyaay Territory. They discuss Black and Indigenous histories, landscapes, land grants, and the role of university campuses. Remixing desert-island discs, Tao invites Chandler to share items she would bring if stranded on an island. For more on Dark Lab https://www.darklaboratory.com/ (https://www.darklaboratory.com/) For more on Tao Leigh Goffe's research. https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/ (https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/) For Chandler Puritty's bio and to learn about other lab technicians and theoreticians at Dark Lab. https://www.darklaboratory.com/lab-members (https://www.darklaboratory.com/lab-members)

13. 

    14 Apr 2021

    Ask a Chinese Question, Get a Black Answer: Andrea Chung

    Professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University, Tao Leigh Goffe, interviews Andrea Chung, a visual artist based out of San Diego. They discuss Afro-Asian identity, history, solidarity, the Caribbean,, and art. Remixing desert-island discs, Andrea shares with Tao what items she would bring if she was stranded on an anti-desert island (1. book 2. essay 3. musical album 4. film 5. luxury object) For more on Tao Leigh Goffe's research. https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/ (https://www.taoleighgoffe.com/) For more on Andrea Chung's art. http://andreachungart.com/ (http://andreachungart.com/)

14. 

    25 Oct 2020

    Dark Laboratory: Black Indigenous Speculative Geographies

    In this crossover episode of "Get Free," professors at Cornell University Jeffrey Palmer and Tao Leigh Goffe take a drive around Cayuga Lake and discuss speculative histories of African American and Native American life.

15. 

    24 Oct 2020

    Get Free (coming October 26)

    Co-founders of the Dark Laboratory Jeffrey Palmer and Tao Leigh Goffe take a drive around Cayuga Lake and discuss speculative geographies and histories of Black and Native coalition.

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